A Good Day.
So I started my day off kind of early when ivonne called me at around 11am. The usual tradition is that we go to Ihop and then the rest of the day is sort of up in the air. It started off when we worked together, the three of us (melissa, ivonne & i), and just kind of stuck around even after I left because we obviously stayed good friends. So today Melissa was working until 10pm and we weren't able to chill with her. Ended up meeting at the old job as Melissa tried to persuade us to stay and order chinese food with her for lunch. We had to decline of course, that's not exciting in our eyes to stick around the workplace during off-hours. I don't even work there any longer, even though I'm still on good terms with 90% of my ex co-workers we were in agreement as to leaving and doing our own thing. After we left and were headed to the bus we decided to go to the mall across the street and shop around a bit for around an hour. Ended up buying a few items of which i basically adore and then left for our original destination... *dun dun dun* the MALL. Now this journey was quite enjoyable since the conversation was constant as was the laughter. We tend to crack each other up epicly every time we meet. I'm much more content with my relationship with Ivonne in comparison with Melissa.. to say the least. About fourty-five minutes later we arrive at the mall and go forth into the downward spiral that is our shopping addiction, cigarettes and lighters in hand. Mind you we've already acquired a small shopping bag of goodies, which was already beginning to annoy me in combination with my huge shoulder bag which contained everything I could possibly need for any situation that may well come our way. This is probably my downfall, but mostly useful, in regards to being a Virgo. Fuck it, I'd rather be prepared for the worse thank you very much.

We first ventured into Forever 21 where most of our shopping occured. Mind you I wore my Juicy Couture shirt out for the first time in a bit without a bra and that turned out to have caught quite a few people's eyes.. more than I expected at least. The store was relatively packed and just about every person I walked by didn't have there heads at eye level... I mean I could have bloody well bought a bra and solved that quick-fast but it was slightly entertaining. Plus it's not as though I have major-boobage heavy metal style so they were just going to suffer. At least I'm not one of those touched kids who feels they owe it to the world to let their emotions out through a screen-printed shirt. I think vulgar language would have been more noticeable or at least offensive in my eyes but you would swear I had dynamite strapped to my chest. Ah well, there's only so much I can be bothered to care about. Anyway, when we finally gathered up enough items to satisfy our thirst we headed to the fitting room. Mind you I had a couple of items more than Ivonne but when I came out (leaving half my items behind. fail) she was nowhere to be found. More stares ensued but as I walked around aimlessly, no sign of Ivonne. I finally spot her coming out of the fitting room explaining to me how fucking ridiculously full of fail her dress was to put on. So that explained it. Ha. We browsed around some more to be certain there wasn't anything of dire need left behind and headed to the checkout. As I'm waiting in line I'm hoping to god that I don't get shit for not have a New York ID which was lost on one of our previous drunken nights a while back. I turned on the girly-charm at the register though and my school ID was accepted. I was thankful I didn't have to jet to an ATM to retrieve money because that would have just been a pain since I didn't know where one was located in this huge mall. I mean even though I've been there so many times, these things slip my mind and I blame the weed. Whatever. Worth it.

So after that we head to Urban Outfitters & end up spending more time in the book section than looking at the typical and unecessarily expensive clothing that occupies U.O. Found out I'm not a huge Star Wars fan in the process though. Yay for the little things. Even the silly books were over-price. I mean honestly, 25 bucks for a book on sex and STDS. Wow. NEXT! I think after that we decided on food which lead us to the food court. More stares. Ignored. We both proceeded to our favourite little Japanese place where I ordered Chicken Teriyaki w/ fried rice and a coke. Yum. Ivonne went with Taco Bell but I'm a creature of strict habit. Once again, blame the astrological sign I was born under, it rules me with whips and chains. I like it. After we finished eating I decided to go into Hot Topic to get some new gauges and retainers for my snake bites. Mother's pressing hard on the lack of a job issue so sooner than later I'll have to fix that hence the preparation. Sale on my gauges and with their buy 1 get 1 1/2 off I was more than a satisfied customer, I wanted to hug the sales person. Now I forgot to mention my back pain during this adventure which of course had to get progressively worse with every store we entered. But even with the plan to get to the pharmacy asap, that only happened 3 stores later.

Next it was to Charlotte Russe to look at shoes, which took around 2 hours last time we were there, but they had a better sale that time so Ivonne just got a cheap pair of neon-orange pumps and we were on our way again. THIS TIME TO THE DRUG STORE! Score. Too bad we had to take the elevator to the basement which we had never been to, turned out it resembled the start of a cheap horror film which worried us slightly but we're troopers. Cigarettes and lighters in hand we would defeat any opponent who dare challenge us. The blood of the one and only drunken master, Jackie Chan, courses through our veins. ANYWAY, we fought through fire and brimstone to get to the pharmacy where Ivonne bought candy of course and I got my fix. As we were leaving we got a phone call to Melissa to meet us at the bat cave (the workplace) at 10 since that's around the time she gets off. An hour later, we finally get there and she's fuming mad at the fact that we're 30 minutes late. Now each of us has had to wait numerous times for one another for various reasons but we knew Melissa would be on her period (which was kind of funny because she actually did get it today) about the whole delay so on the way there we decided to come up with a good lie to explain away the beatdown we would probably recieve. Ivonne failed with her idea of bums getting on the bus and causing a ruckus, involving police and our imaginary bus delay. Pass. But it brought the lols for the bus ride. My excuse was used instead which was that Ivonne pissed her pants since this has happened quite a lot recently due to unmentionable girly circumstances. Godzilla aka Melissa, accepted this excuse and didn't doubt it for a second. Racquel - 1 Ivonne - -4 (Do I really need to explain why..)

After Melissa huffed and puffed her ass in the back, away from us on the bus, we were finally talking again when we arrived back in the neighborhood. Went to Taco Bell where we proudly showed Melissa our purchases for the day and then left and decided to buy some alcohol and head to the beach. It was foggy as all fuck but we didn't mind. Scratch that, IVONNE AND I DIDN'T MIND. Melissa was tempted to back down in fear of rain when it was merely the fog being fucking fog. Surprise Surprise. We get the the boardwalk and it's like an orgy of couples scattered across it the further down we walk. Finally gave up and sat down on the wet benches, enjoyed our beer and took pictures. My day was good. I'll edit this with the photos in a bit as soon as I upload them. Not enough alcohol was consumed to pacify me to unconsciousness so lets do this before I lose my motivation!